Getting the Last Word

Is that Charlie Two in your pic, there?

Someone seems to be adopting fonetic spelling in spite of himself.

It's cool Dave. It has pretensions to being "ordinary Joe" and streetwise.

Snobs do it to try not to look like snobs. Like wearing jeans on a weekend. It's an appeal for the sympathy of the common man.

I do it in the pub so that I can disguise my intellectual credentials. If I don't pepper my conversation with obscenities they start calling me "Bish".

I think "git" would have helped. And "i'm" is studied understatement.

What does "Bish" mean ?

WORD.

The covers always look so good.

It's gamma minus phonetic spelling for bishop. You're style is beta minus Dave. An affectation of those members of the chattering classes desperate for some way of standing apart from their fellow man.

If "bish" and "bishop" convey the exact same meaning in the dynamic of the social context then the "op" is wasted resources. Surely? That's what you've said.

If the beta minus American social dynamic uses "bishop" when an obvious shorter synonym conveys the meaning it must be because, if only on evolutionary principles, there's a felt need to extend the usage of the vocalisation machinery or to get to the bottom of the page more easily in an essay in which bishops (the plural is okay) are mentioned.

*Isn't Gracie witty eh what?

My reading of Gracie's WORD posts is that if one went for a stroll in the heather with her on a warm drowsy day and fell asleep in a grassy glade one would wake up with a dry twig tickling the furthest reaches of the inner membranes of one of one's nostrils.

I thought it was because you were such a fan of Jamie Oliver, bish bash bosh.

Haha!!

Totally!

Word.

I hate TV cooks. They never wash up and any plonker can make tempting grub with the dangerous ingredients most of them use.

And it'll all be down the turd pipe the day after. In a few cases an hour after or a week after.

I think the primary principle is that ladies don't like straight cash transactions but they need to see cash expended in their honour. Hence the hierarchy of restaurants mirroring the class system. A loose form of arranged marriage.

Truffaut's hero Bernard in 'L'Homme qui aimait les femmes' said that restaurants are dangerous places for men.

Even the hairy bikers? They use the most prosaic of ingredients, and I think they do the washing up. One of them's from your neck of the woods.

Well, it looks like you got the last word, edgar.

It's fitting that "troll" figures in it.

I enjoyed this thread, and I was the last man standing, it turns out.

WORD!!

(I win, losers! )

Not so fast, kiddo!

That ain't no word. 'At's a video.



(You thought I wouldn't notice, eh?)